The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-09-10
News of the Week.

The 1neatre ftOyal; Ut Exeter, lSnglanui
was burned during performance on Monday
Prohibition is making decided Roadway in
Florida. Within the past two weeks five
have voted on the question, and all
went "dry," some by large majorities.
1t is now said that ITO bodies have been
taken from the wreck of the railroad train at
Chatsworth, Illinois, and it is believed that
several others were consumed in the wreck.
1t is reported from Evansville, Indiana,
that there is a prospect that the reunion of
the Blue and the Gray, to be held there from
the 10th to the 25th inst, will be au entire
success.
VIM Kinney and John Slatterly, coal SHOW
elers in Cincinnati, quarreled about ten cents
cut Slatterly's throat, causing death in few
minutes
Rev. Alvin Woods, D. D., died at his home
aged "a years. He graduated from Phillips
Academy, Andover and Harvard, and was or
dained in 1921.
At Flemingsburg, Kentucky, early on Sat
urday morning, one hundred masked men
took Charles Coleman, colored, from the Jail
and lynched him. He had criminally assaulted
a young white woman.
A typhoid fever epidemic prevails at Rob-
ertsdale, in Huntingdon county, Pa. There
are about fifty cases, and there have been
nine deaths. The physicians attribute the
disease to unclean wells.
Philip Schembs, in Jail at Louisville, for
drunkenness, committed suicide on Monday
morning by cutting his throat and the main
artery of his left arm with tin bucket in
which SCUM had been sent TO him.
The annual convention of the PENNSYLVANIA
State Millers' Association was held on Tues
day in Williamsport. Representatives from
New Jersey were present A resolution was
adopted approving the Interstate Commerce
law.
The ship Falls of Bruar, of Glasgow, bound
from Hamburg to Calcutta with cargo of
salt. fonndered of Yarmouth, the cargo having
shifted. Five of the crew were rescued and
twenty-four were drowned most of whom
were Germans and Swedes.
The attorneys for the convicted Chicago
boodlers claim to have made a discovery of
error in the recent trial. They assert that the
Illinois conspiracy statute is illegal. This is
the law under which the Anarchists as well as
the boodlers were convicted.
At Woodstock, Virginia, on Tuesday, the
suit of General Malone against Senator Rid
deber, on $500 bond, terminated in a dis
agreement of the jury. A second suit against
the Senator by Malone for $1,000 was con-
tihued until the next term of court.
On Sunday night a number ofdruuken men
raised a disturbance at Mariana, Arkansas.
Marshal Ford arrested one of their number
and, while on his way to Jail, the crowd at
tempted to rescue the prisoner. Pistol shots
were exchanged and one of the rioters was
killed.
Great excitement has been caused at Gen
eva and Batavia, Illinois, by the depredations
ofa panther, supposed to have escaped from
some menagerie. Thus far it has killed about
a dozen dogs and two cows, and has exhumed
several bodies from cemetery. Hunting
parties are after it.
A sensation was caused Sunday morning in
the Heidelberg Reformed congregation, at
York, Pa, by the announcement after service
that the pastor, Rev. f. j. Saurhrier, had ac.
cened call from Presbyterian Church in
Emporia, Kansas. His predecessor, Rev.
Mr.. Vaughan, also entered the PRESBYTERIAN
fold.
The suit of the People against Thomas C.
Plat, brought by the Attorney General of
New York, for the removal of Platt from the
office of Quarantine Commissioner, was ar
gued before Justice Ingalls,, on Monday. in
Troy. The complaint alleges that Plat is a
nonresident of New York and that his oath
of office was not properly filed.
An epidemic of black diphtheria is raging
at Lockport, Pa, a town of about 200 inliah-
itnnts. Nearly half of the population are
reported down with the disease, and thirteen
deaths occurred in FIVE days. The victims
are seized with black vomit, and usually die
within two or three days. Recently an old
viaduct which formed part of the State Canal
was destroyed by dynamite at that point,
leaving stagnant pools of water, which, it is
believed, caused the epidemic.
The recent importations into Boston from
Ireland of FIVE female spinners by Ross, Tur-
ner 4 Co., manufacturers of Irvine and thread,
has resulted in suit by the United States
against the firm for violation of the United
States statute prohibiting the importation of
fofeigRlabor. The Knights of Labor brought
the matter to the attention of the United
States attorney. The penalty is $1,000 in
each case.
The steamship Alameda, from Sydney,
Australia, having touched at Honolulu Aug.
9th, arrived at San Francisco on Saturday.
Affairs In the Hawaiian Kingdom continue to
remain tranquil. An active political canvass
is being made for the election under the new
constitution, which will occur on September
18th. The nominees for the new House of
Mobiles and House of Representatives are
nearly all Americans or Englishmen.
Schedules in the assignment of Fl. S. Ives
& Co., whom Robt. Garrett allowed to
hawk about the BALTIMORE h Ohio railroad,
have been filed in the Court of Common Please
in New York. The liabilities are ST, $685.
ITO; nominal assets, 1864, 26S; actual as
oafc l..
account, amount to Sc, 402, 241. Secured
creditors, bills payable, are 81 ,673, 800. The
liabilities on stock loaned amount to 81, 01Q,-
900. The amount due unsecured creditors is
S., $50, 116.
In the Senate of New Hampshire on Tues
day, Mr.. Sawyer, rising to question of priv
ilege, said that on Wednesday of last week
he was called from the Senate Chamber by
the Sergeant at Arms, and met Kirk d.
Pierce, who proposed that he make a speech
for the Boston and Maine Railroad for $5O00
The proposition, said Mr.. Sawyer, was de-
clined. A committee was appointed to in
vestigate the charge. Kirk d. Pierce is a
lawyer and nephew of the late President
Pierce.
Later reports Of the great storm in Texas
last week say that all the bridges in Hill
county were washed away, ahd the damage
to crops and farms will reach 100000. In
Basque county and along the line of the Santa
Fe railroad much damage was also done.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad had nearly one
thousand men at work on repairs near Grand
View. A train on the road was detained on
the prairie between Itasca and Grand View
from Monday night until Thursday morning.
and many of the passengers suffered severely
for want of food.
President and Mrs Cleveland are to he
treated To a grand military display during
their visit to Atlanta, Ga, on the 18th of DC.
toher. Gov. Gordon has arranged sham
battle for the President, and in connection